Getting a new Aliens film? Great, but after a few misfires (you can decide which were misfires, but I bet you think there were some) it can feel like a mixed blessing, perhaps. Wars have very nearly been fought over these movies, because the first two instalments set the bar so extraordinarily high; if the […]
Predator (1987) is one of those action/sci-fi films of the 80s which feel like almost perfect movies: no lulls, no tedious side-plots, but enough focused writing to pit plausible characters against hitherto implausible adversaries. It’s no surprise then that the original film has presented tantalisingly rich pickings for subsequent films, whether reboots or add-ons (and […]
Following on from our recent review of the ‘creature feature road trip’ movie The Passenger, we were pleased to get the opportunity for a quick chat with leading man Ramiro Blas, who plays the inimitable (and potentially divisive) leading man Blasco in the film. Blas has a long pedigree as an actor – over twenty […]
The blurb for The Passenger – or La pasajera, to give it its original title – doesn’t give too much away; going from this to an opening scene which seems to point to a different genre of horror altogether, the film we actually get turns out to be quite a pleasant, unpleasant surprise. The Passenger […]
The Abandon gives itself an immense amount of work to do; it has sci-fi elements, but it couples these with something akin to an ordeal horror in places. But then, it adds elements of human drama too – elements which become steadily more important as the film progresses. All in, it’s a challenging watch which […]
Science fiction has become very low-key these days, hasn’t it? Perhaps it’s as a result of the way we’re already living with a lot of the technology – and repercussions – which much of classic sci-fi could only imagine. Now, we’re left to play catch-up, wondering what all of these developments and further developments can […]